Music Video Plan

Above is an initial brainstorm plan of my music video I made before filming. This helped me come up with a general idea for the narrative of my music video and I used the majority of ideas outlined in the plans.

After what I found from analysing the song lyrics, I was certain I wanted to make a narrative based video with the story taken in the direction of there being the artist/character doing the same thing day after day with no opportunities. As you can see in the brainstorm plans, I came up with the idea of a busker (the artist) waking up and  getting ready to go out busking. The camera would show shots of empty bottles of beer which would later become more relevant towards the end of the video. The busker would then get as much money as they could, people and perhaps dogs or children could possibly walk by to give the place a built up kind of feel to it. After, the artist would then walk off towards a local shop to purchase more beer and then head home. I also came up with the idea for the artist to light up a cigarette as the lyric 'Smoke until our eyes would bleed, sparkle pops up the seeds" sounds but I wasn't entirely sure. The general message I would try and give off from the video is that the artist/main character is living in a 'Trouble Town' and doing the same thing day after day. Living with his parents perhaps off the very little he gets from busking so he can just afford his cans of beer each day.

As the artist of the original song obviously wouldn't be able to perform in the song I planned on asking my friend Nathan to appear as Bugg as he agreed to help me previously. Also, some some extent he looked surprisingly similar to Jake Bugg which was an added bonus! I didn't plan on using an fast editing or cuts in the film to match the music as the song itself stayed at quite a steady and consistent pace and I felt it wouldn't really suit the video and could perhaps disrupt the narrative.